Non-
conformity has always been a popular topic for
novels, especially those with teenagers as the protagonists. The paper
shows, however, that no two books have ever better expressed all of male adolescents' contradictions and rock-solid beliefs than J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". The paper shows that although the two
novels are separated by seventy years, there are still many striking similarities between Huck and Holden in their attitudes towards
conformity, religion, money, lying and most importantly, escape from the lives that they feel claustrophobic in.